Strong's Number 4983

Transliteration:
soma {so'-mah}
Word Origin:
from 4982
TDNT:
7:1024,1140
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
body 144, bodily 1, slave 1

Total: 146
Definition:
  1. the body both of men or animals
    1. a dead body or corpse
    2. the living body
      1. of animals
  2. the bodies of plants and of stars (heavenly bodies)
  3. is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body
    1. so in the NT of the church
  4. that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself